Who was Loren D. Carlson

"We must accept the inevitability of change in university structure
from an aristocratic one to a democratic form involving the student and
faculty community in its decisions. Somehow, we must change the
connotation of the conjunction between teaching and research to teaching
with research so that the public and government recognize their
inseparable nature in the university."
— Loren D. Carlson, The way of an
investigator--reanalyzed, The Physiologist, 12:425-432 (1969).

Loren Daniel Carlson was the chief innovator of the curriculum that has
been the basic curricular pattern of the University of California, Davis
Medical School. By gaining the respect and confidence of his colleagues, he
became a continuous source of advice on administrative matters on the Davis
campus. His ability to perceive and establish relationships was apparent to
all who sought his advice. He was particularly accessible and communicative
to students and faculty members.

After receiving his Ph.D. in zoology in 1941 at the University of Iowa,
Professor Carlson later joined the Zoology Department at the University of
Washington, Seattle in 1946. He was appointed to the Department of Physiology
and Biophysics and later became the chairman of the department at the
University of Kentucky, Lexington Medical School in 1960. In 1966 he came to
the medical school at Davis as assistant dean and chairman of the division of
sciences basic to medicine, a post he held concurrently with the charimanship
of the Department of Human Physiology. He was elected chairman of the
physiology graduate group and served as a catalyst in the development of a
creative interdepartmental and scientifically productive graduate program.

Dr Carlson was a consultant to various offices of the President of the
United States, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the
National Academy of Science. He made important contributions concerning
adaptation to cold and the role of the sympathetic nervous system in
regulation of heat production in homeotherms. In 1969 the University of Oslo,
Norway awarded him a Ph.D. honoris causa. He was elected president of the
American Physiological Society (1968-69) and served as president of the
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (1969-70).
-- Extracted from: Hsieh, A. et al. In Memoriam. University of California,
July 1973.

The Regents of the University of California in executive session on June
20, 1980, approved "that the Health Sciences Library, located in Building B of
the Medical School Complex, Davis campus, be designated the Loren Daniel
Carlson Health Sciences Library." The renaming ceremony and dedication took
place on December 12, 1984.